Joshua Leavitt

Joshua Leavitt (8 September 1794-16 January 1873) was an American minister and abolitionist publisher.

Biography
Joshua Leavitt was born in Heath, Massachusetts in 1794, and he practiced law in Putney, Vermont before becoming a minister in Stratford, Connecticut. He went from being a lawyer and minister to being a prominent writer, editor, and publisher of abolitionist literature, and he served as an editor of The Emancipator, The New York Independent, The New York Evangelist, and other periodicals; as first secretary of the American Temperance Society; as co-founder of the New York Anti-Slavery Society; and as a spokesman for the Liberty Party. He died in 1873.